Assasinating a Stripper Problem! HELP (spoiler)

Insomnia21 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-30-2007, 05:49 PM

I can't get the guy out of the booth at the sinbin. You have to kill one of the dancers to complete the "Hot Stripper Assassin Action!" Quest from VV, but you have to do it without killing innocents. I already smashed the change machine and shut off the other booths. But that guy still doesn't go away.

I already smashed him with a sledgehammer and reloaded the game... just to get some satisfaction.

Lukeatus · #2 (**permalink**) 06-30-2007, 11:51 PM

On the sinbin, you don't have to smash the change machine. You have to lockpick it, to open and take all the money inside it. Use blood buff if your lockpick skill isn't high enough. You have to shut the other booths on the computer, but after that you must steal the money from the machine so that the guy can't get any more change than leave.
After that you're not quite out of the woods yet, you have to get another stripper to leave. Several ways of doing that.

xjinx · #3 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 11:36 AM

Actually, i've had the same problem this most recent time i'm playing the game through, playing as a Tremere. I have managed this quest several times before, lockpicking the change machine, taking the money and locking the booths down, but some possible bug in the game causes the fat man to stay in the booth that is impossible to lock down.
I lost my temper and killed him. I've gotten VV's poems before

Jhereg · #4 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by xjinx

Actually, i've had the same problem this most recent time i'm playing the game through, playing as a Tremere. I have managed this quest several times before, lockpicking the change machine, taking the money and locking the booths down, but some possible bug in the game causes the fat man to stay in the booth that is impossible to lock down.
I lost my temper and killed him. I've gotten VV's poems before

If you do everything else in proper order, it still sometimes takes quite awhile for the last patron to leave. I do the ritual stuff, then crouch in the door of the "Pleasure Palace" to wait for him to leave. This is the wrong time to be impatient.

xjinx · #5 (**permalink**) 07-02-2007, 12:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Jhereg

If you do everything else in proper order, it still sometimes takes quite awhile for the last patron to leave. I do the ritual stuff, then crouch in the door of the "Pleasure Palace" to wait for him to leave. This is the wrong time to be impatient.

oh, believe me, i'm not the one to not wait things out

i stood for around 20 minutes crouched around that corner. i also tried walking out and back in again, clearing out other quests... did more waiting around. reloaded and waited longer, and so on. My guess is that it's a bug.

Jhereg · #6 (**permalink**) 07-03-2007, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by xjinx

oh, believe me, i'm not the one to not wait things out

i stood for around 20 minutes crouched around that corner. i also tried walking out and back in again, clearing out other quests... did more waiting around. reloaded and waited longer, and so on. My guess is that it's a bug.

Then you should know that certain activities outside the sin-bin will nail that guy in that booth forever. So the sin bin all in one swoop, from walking in to walking out. I once walked it, checked the computer, locked down the dance floor, took the money, then split and did something else. For whatever reason, when I got back, that guy never left, and, regrettably, you can't kill him.

There are also certain things you can do before even entering the sin bin that cause the same thing.

I've found that the safest route is to leave VV alone until you're ready for the hunter, then go to VV, get the quest, hustle right over to the sin bin, do the quest, and go straight back to VV. That always seems to work.

Dawdling in between causes most of the problems.

xjinx · #7 (**permalink**) 07-12-2007, 04:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Jhereg

Then you should know that certain activities outside the sin-bin will nail that guy in that booth forever. So the sin bin all in one swoop, from walking in to walking out. I once walked it, checked the computer, locked down the dance floor, took the money, then split and did something else. For whatever reason, when I got back, that guy never left, and, regrettably, you can't kill him.

There are also certain things you can do before even entering the sin bin that cause the same thing.

I've found that the safest route is to leave VV alone until you're ready for the hunter, then go to VV, get the quest, hustle right over to the sin bin, do the quest, and go straight back to VV. That always seems to work.

Dawdling in between causes most of the problems.

I thought that it might be a problem with running out in between and doing other things, the only reason i tried it at all was because of the fact that i've always done this quest straight ahead and had no problem with it, which i also did this last time when the man won't walk out of the booth. Just like you said, did the quest all through right when VV gives it to you. This last time i did however have trouble regardless, hence me trying everything possible, even the most dodgy things, as walking out and back in to see if he had left.
I've done this quest around 30 times, and it has never been any confusion surrounding it, hence my suspicions of it being a bug, although i don't know what's setting it off.

Darkstone · #8 (**permalink**) 07-13-2007, 08:41 AM

My first time I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the guy either. And I didn't have a chance to get rid of the other stripper because when the door to the dance room opened the hunter saw me and started chasing me. So I led her away into the Sin Bin office and I fought and killed her there. That resulted in "No witnesses".

alyndrya · #9 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 02:45 AM

I had the same problem with the stripper, where I locked down the windows, stole the change, and the fat guy was still there. I went off and did a couple of missions, including the Warrens, but when I came back, he was still there. I could pick the lock on her change room, but wasn't able to get open the actual dancing room. Unfortunately, I couldn't just go back and do it all over, because I had done so much since first entering the Sin Bin.

So, I drained the fat guy a little to stun him, brought up the Console, put in noclip, and slipped through the wall in the dancing room. Chastity was waiting for me near the open door of her dressing room by then with a weapon, but once I did noclip again in the Console, I was able to also feed on the second stripper and stun her, then kill Chastity.

This solution worked great. I got the points, with no loss of Humanity and there was no problems when I went back to Velvet.

mberry · #10 (**permalink**) 11-06-2007, 06:16 AM

There is indeed a bug. You need to do this in one sitting after you get the quest. I didn't the first time and had to relode an earlier save. The same thing happened with the gargoyle.

When the scene works right you need to stal the change and after a while the guy will leave. At that point every thing is straight froward. Attack Chastity and feed on her. She dies quickly with no noise.